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Etymologies
- Middle English posen, to place, from Old French poser, from Vulgar Latin *pausāre, from Late Latin pausāre, to rest, from Latin pausa, pause; see pause.Short for appose, to examine closely (from Middle English apposen, alteration of opposen; see oppose) and from French poser, to assume (obsolete) (from Old French; see pose1).
Examples
“And Hill says former Baltimore Ravens coach Brian Billick, currently a commentator on Fox Sports game telecasts, is also in his sights to do some type of show online (even though Billick does not have a nickname ending in "oose").”
“Our item yesterday on the Ground Zero mosque and the Koran burning mentioned in passing our view that "the mosque developers should ch oose a site a respectful distance from Ground Zero.”
“And no amount of "[l] oose and irresponsible use of adjectives" such as "'[i] nherent' powers, 'implied' powers, 'incidental' powers, 'plenary' powers, 'war' powers and 'emergency' powers" will alter that simple legal verity.”
Shayana Kadidal: What Part of "Inherent Powers" Doesn't Specter Understand?
“July 30, 2009 at 5:36 pm hay youz geyes…NO MELON=NO LEMON, theenk uhh bow tit an thin lerrn howt oose pell.”
i has a melon - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“What if the guy in New Hampshite is being paid a large sum of money to oose as a hostage taker, just to give Hillary her moment in front of the cameras, both humanizing her and presenting an image of a future President "in command," someone ready from the first day to be President?”
Did yesterday's hostage crisis teach us anything about Hillary Clinton?
“When he was just a gosling, he wandered from his nest. got caught in the cu the never called to him, and Cano rrent and was swept far, far downstq, ge was found by an old oose who no longer had young.”
A Ring And A Promise
“House, and thence down into the Pond, and the other half, round the Side of the bushy Pasture Hill, so as to oose over several Acres there before it fell down into the Pond.”
“The Major traded for bags of food seeds, baskets, spoons made from mountain sheep's horns, balls of compressed cactus fruit from which the juice had been extracted for a kind of wine, rolls of oose-apple pulp, which they ate like bread, etc., all for the Smithsonian Institution.”
“The principal root words are "mistik," meaning wood, and "oose," meaning boat or ship, and the word has been shortened to "mistikose.”
“A warrant 'oose name begins with a V., isn't it?”
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Goatboy's list
Goatboy's Word Emporium
juggernaut, abhor, discombobulate, fankle, oose, orchid, schadenfreude, doppleganger, garibaldi, coquette, arabesque, meme and 19 more...
shevek n. Furry dust that gathers under beds. (from The Phrontistery) Nov 16, 2008
goatboy Scottish word meaning fluff.
Apparently comes from the Scottish word for wool: "oo" Jan 23, 2008